Top 5: Supply Chain Services
| 1. UPS Shiraleah is a Chicago-based company that manufactures and distributes home goods and fashion accessories to about 5,000 retailers throughout the United States and Canada. Its product line features more than 9,000 items from 35 different suppliers in Vietnam, Thailand, China, Hong Kong and the Philippines. Sourcing goods from a large supplier pool can be demanding on a supply chain moving into the United States. It's even more challenging when trying to extend reach into new international markets without spending too much in capital, as was the challenge for Shiraleah. UPS Trade Direct Cross Border was the perfect solution. It allowed Shiraleah to bundle separate orders together as one shipment. As a result, Shiraleah pays only one customs clearance fee and one shipping fee from its distribution center in Chicago. After the shipment crosses the Canadian border, it's taken to a UPS facility in Toronto to be deconsolidated and injected into the UPS delivery network -- a one-to-many distribution model. |
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BREAKOUT WINNERS
CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
Pitney Bowes Distribution Solutions offer customers a wide range of shipping solutions, including its new SendSuite Shipping Solutions, web-based solutions that provide visibility into shipping information for better customer service, as well as enhanced cost controls and shipping performance monitoring.
Pitney Bowes Distribution Solutions offer customers a wide range of shipping solutions, including its new SendSuite Shipping Solutions, web-based solutions that provide visibility into shipping information for better customer service, as well as enhanced cost controls and shipping performance monitoring.
1. Pitney Bowes
2. C.H. Robinson
2. C.H. Robinson
SMALL/MIDSIZE BUSINESS
"UPS helped us understand importing and solidified our supply chain foundation. We use UPS for air freight and ocean freight import, customs brokerage, UPS Mail Innovations and small package delivery," says Jonelle Raffino, president, Southwest Trading Company. "We knew all these types of services existed, but didn't think we could afford it as a young company."
"UPS helped us understand importing and solidified our supply chain foundation. We use UPS for air freight and ocean freight import, customs brokerage, UPS Mail Innovations and small package delivery," says Jonelle Raffino, president, Southwest Trading Company. "We knew all these types of services existed, but didn't think we could afford it as a young company."
1. UPS
2. USPS
2. USPS
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